Event Details
Date: Tuesday April 1st, 2025
Session 1 Time/Location: 2:30-3:15pm Artist talk in Hopkins Hall 180 (Emerging Technologies Studio/Hopkins Annex) ; Session 2 Time/Location: 3:30-4:30 Somatic/Movement-based practice on the Oval
Description: This talk and movement-based workshop explore queer ecological perspectives and experiences of embodiment that disrupt normative constructions of the body as bounded, separate, and impermeable. We will discuss and practice strategies for developing a greater felt sense of our own bodies as well as how our felt sense of self expands or transforms through moving in and out of intentional relationships with other bodies—both human and more-than-human. Who and how else might we become as we traverse promiscuous embodied relations through our movement? What more becomes possible when we invite human and more-than-human others into our bodies through moving together? How might these experiences shape not only how we approach ourselves and one another, but also our collective movements and our relationship with a planet in crisis? No previous movement experience needed.
About the Hosts
Michael J. Morris is a dance artist, astrologer, tarot reader, writer, and educator who holds a PhD in Dance Studies from The Ohio State University. Their choreographic and performance work draws influences from Japanese Butoh, ritual practices, and early formalist postmodern dance and has been presented at universities, galleries, community spaces, theaters, bars and nightclubs, films, and domestic spaces.
Lichen Likers is a group of faculty, staff and students working in the Living Art and Ecology Lab at The Ohio State University. The Lichen Research and Art Project are learning with lichens and drawing inspiration from their symbiotic lifestyles.
